At twenty-five, I arranged for Bighead Xiao to take his first concubine.
Her dowry was an entire city.
At twenty-six, I arranged the second.
Her dowry was ten li of granaries.
At forty-two, he took his eighteenth.
There were so many women that I could no longer remember their names.
And I had gone from a farmer’s wife to the founding empress of Great Zhao.